Blast From The Radio Past, Vol. 4: 20 Years Ago with Tom Gardner & Mac Greer

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Were you here before podcasts? Remember the NPR show? AM radio anyone? Today Mac Greer is back with the keys to our deep vault of audio gold. Tom Gardner joins David to revisit and discuss the conversations, predictions, and lessons from 20 years ago.

(7:08) Jim Sinegal on competition and growth
(13:09) Meg Whitman on eBay's acquisition of PayPal
(18:00) John Antioco on Blockbuster's bright future
(22:53) Roger Ebert on Blockbuster's imminent demise
(25:23) Loretta Lynn on Growing Up Poor
(30:45) Sir Bob Geldof on the futility of bribery
(35:07) Mike Veeck on creative marketing

Companies Discussed: COST, WMT, EBAY, PYPL, NFLX

Host: David Gardner
Guests: Tom Gardner, Mac Greer
Voices from the Vault: Jim Sinegal, Meg Whitman, John Antioco, Roger Ebert, Loretta Lynn, Sir Bob Geldof, Mike Veeck
Producers: Mac Greer & Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0	For three years on AM radio, coast to coast,
0:03.5	a live call in back in the day.
0:05.1	My brother Tom Gardner and I
0:06.4	hosted the Motley Fool radio show, Saturdays,
0:09.6	three hours through the afternoon. Thanks to our celebrated producer,
0:14.0	longtime fellow fool Matt Greer, celebrated,
0:18.0	I mean, we at least celebrate the guy.
0:20.0	We did dozens of interviews with bright lights from Jeff Bezos to the San Diego
0:25.1	Chicken. Our profile then rose higher when with Mac we transitioned the Motley Fool
0:31.1	radio show from the world of AM radio to National Public Radio.
0:35.7	For several years we were an NPR show and we began to bring in even more amazing guests.
0:42.2	Well, that was then, this is now.
0:46.2	We eventually transitioned our on-air presence
0:48.2	from radio to podcasts, which we've loved bringing
0:50.9	you for more than a decade and counting, but what should never be forgotten,
0:56.5	the interviews we did with celebrities major and mostly minor from back in the day. It is a deep vault of audio gold. And in this fourth
1:08.4	episode of the recurring series Blast from the Radio Past, our first return to this series since
1:14.8	before the pandemic, we go back in time to listen in once again to the wisdom of
1:20.2	cost co-founder and CEO Jim Cinegal say or to Loretta Lynn. Mystery Science Theater 3,000
1:29.0	style a little bit as we listen again and opine. So a special treat for you this week, the
1:34.8	gang's back together, my brother Tom Gardner, our producer Matt Greer, and me and
1:39.1	you only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
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